Quick, Here’s How to Get Rid Of Your Headache In 2 Minutes

Headaches say ‘hey girl!’ at the most inconvenient times - when you’re working, overwhelmed with housework or at a kid’s birthday party (likely your own). But instead of popping ibuprofen to relieve the pain, first try this quick guided visualization technique made popular by YouTuber Kamil K. Wawrzyszko.

Wawrzyszko explains in a later video why he believes this method works so well. He also says many people don’t understand how to assign a color or shape to a headache (it isn’t a real object, after all), but that isn’t the important part. It’s the focus and attention paid to answering these questions that allows your headache to be cured in under two minutes.

“The more you look at things, the more they disappear,” he explained. And as most common headaches are self-inflicted based on stress or as an excuse not to do something, recognizing your headache and talking about properties of it rather than the pain allows it to vanish.